A selection of English ESL likes and dislikes printables

Likes and dislikes

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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Cut out the cards. Students work in pairs, put the cards face down and Like-Dislike cards face up on the desk. Then they take turns and say whether they like smth or not and explain why. Hope it\'s useful!

Like-Dislike (cards)

This worksheet is for an ESL / ESOL speaking activity about sports.  On the first page, are several examples of short speeches about sports likes and dislikes, about what they do to keep fit.  On the second page, students can write their own speech about their personal likes and dislikes, as well as what they do to keep fit.  Second page includes an area for planning out what they want to say (in the same manner of City and Guilds exams) as well as a place to write out their speech in full.

Language includes like, don't like, play, watch

Images are suited for adults.  Black and white worksheet ideal for photocopying.

Making a simple speech about sports

This is an activity that can be used at a first day of school. Self introduction and get to know each other using a facebook profile. Writing and speaking based tasks.

Facebook Profile

This worksheet is for the first days of school. Students can give some information about themselves and about their classmates. 

These activities can be adapted to the different levels of students making more difficult questions. It can also be used as games for students to guess some friends information they don´t know or to make a brief presentation about themselves to their friends or the other class students

First Days of School - Likes/Dislikes & Friends

This is a game based on truth or lie game, including phrasal verbs and expressions. The students are supposed to pick a card which would say "truth" or "lie" and the rest should guess if it's true or false so that they can get as many points as they can. Since this is intended to be for advanced students they are supposed to describe as much as they can using a wide range of vocabulary.

Truth or lie C1

The present downloadable handout is recommended for elementary school students at Beginner (pre-A1) and Elementary (A1) leve

iT contains four activities about: PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE.ABILITIES, EXISTENCIAL THERE, LIKES AND DISLIKES.

Worksheet: Prepositions of Place, Can/Can't, Existencial 'There', Likes & Dislikes 

The objective of this worksheet is to help students tell the difference between possessive adjectives and personal pronouns (she, her, he, his). They must read the sentences, look at the pictures, and determine which gender to use and whether the phrase needs a personal pronoun or possessive adjective.

Possessive Adjectives vs. Personal Pronouns

This is my second worksheet based on the short film: FEAST. The film is an Oscar-winning Disney animation.

The activities are for young learners.

there's a wordsearch in order to work on before watching the short film.

After watching it, the students have to draw the main character (which is a dog) and circle the correct words to complete a very simple description of it. After that, they have to order the events.

What I love about this film and this worksheet is that it allows us teachers to give our young students an important message: DON'T BUY PETS.. ADOPT!

FEAST: Disney Pixar short film worksheet

A nice pairwork activity in which students  answser the grid for themselves in one colour, then ask the questions to their friend  using another colour on the sheet , then they can make comments such as, I don't like cats but Fred does....

Dou you like ?/ pair work activity

This is for teaching:

a) FOOD;

b) SO DO I, neither do I, I do, I don't...

c) WHEREAS;

d) LIKES AND DISLIKES, preference

Good for classroom/pair work and also for private tutoring. 

WHICH DO YOU LIKE BETTER, WHICH DO YOU PREFER expressing preference

Students will enjoy drawing the things they like and the things they don't like.

At the same time they will learn and practice English vocabulary.

They may share their drawings with their classmates and talk about their drawings in a funny class.

Things I like - Things I don't like

play - do - go verbs. pictorial test - self questonnaire -  and exercises about names of games and hobbies, full of four pages with pictures about games and hobbies, and likes dislikes enjoy hate and more . 

240 Likes and dislikes English ESL worksheets pdf & doc